In this version of Octave, “warning on” really enables all warnings (while this
was not the case in Octave 6, suprisingly; I think this used to be different
with even older Octave releases).
We therefore need to explicitly disable the Octave:array-as-logical warnings,
that is triggered by some internal Octave functions.
We also need to be careful to call “warning_config” instead of “warning on”
when restoring warnings to their default state.
It is now supported by the MATLAB editor (as of R2022a).
The old ASCII notation is left in some files that we copy as-is from other
sources (e.g. in the contrib/ and m4/ subdirectories).
The particles submodule is not updated at this point, because it is in an
inconsistent state.
[skip ci]
This is a partial revert of 4346903c65. The
xlswrite function is actually not able to write XLS files on GNU/Linux and
macOS, and moreover its CSV fallback does not work with cell arrays.
1) algo_truncation: sets the number of iterations for a truncated guess-verify algorithm (i.e. if max_iter<=algo_truncation, no error is triggered on output, but the user is happy with the last regime in the algorithm)
2) reset_regime_in_new_period: is set to true, it resets the guess regimes to unconstrained when a new shock arrives, instead of starting with a guess regime consistent with the one identified in previous time periods. this sometimes allows more robust convergence/identification of the regimes